when is the best age to get married?

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when is the best age to get married?

  • Between 17-20

    Votes: 4 5.6%

  • Between 20-23

    Votes: 8 11.1%

  • Between 23-26

    Votes: 24 33.3%

  • Between 26-29

    Votes: 24 33.3%

  • Between 29-32

    Votes: 8 11.1%

  • Between 32-35

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Between 35-40

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Above 40+

    Votes: 3 4.2%
  • Total voters
    72
Immawildthing

Immawildthing

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Is it too much to ask for that post to be deleted?
 
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Slaidyk

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#24
whenever god tells you to. age hardly matters
 
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Slaidyk

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#25
Whenever god tells you to, age hardly matters.
 
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alienambassador

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progressivenerdgirl said:
When you can treat another person respectfully and aren't just using them as emotional crutches or an excuse to have sex. That might be 13, it might be 30, it might be never.
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I don't know about 13, but I get your point.
 
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Samohito

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#27
i think depend on someone to commit their self to be married on which age. Some people feel comfortable to be married in their young age, but some people also won't rush to get married because the want to enjoy their single life first.
 
David_1

David_1

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Mar 21, 2011
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20-23 is good.
But young people need to be taught to have standards in their partner.
Too many young people judge on looks and not character.
 
shae0104

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Jun 21, 2011
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when God is number 1 in your life and as a man you are ready to lay your life down like Christ did and as a woman you are ready to submit ;)
 
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lan12

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#30
I dont belive it has anything to do with your age it all depends on your level of maturity and your relationship with God.
 
leelee

leelee

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Sep 5, 2011
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I don't think there is a best age, everyone is different. Some people might be ready at 21 and others might not be ready untill they are 40. I do think under 21 is a bit too young.
 
RickShafer

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Sep 8, 2012
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In the former days people got married young.
Like fourteen.
But then again they didn't live as long.
Like fifty or sixty.

Get married when you're ready I say. No age to young or to old.
 
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Prodigal5

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#33
Yeah I was going to mention... didn't Mary get married when she was around 14... thats what i heard anyways... i am not sure if I have seen any biblical evidence of that.
 
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BLINDSIDE_CHIK

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#35
I don't really know how to answer that. Except the best age to get married is the day when God plans for you to get married. You should know that Your gonna get a million different people with diff answers because everybody who has considered it either wishes they had already been married or wants to be married at a certain age. Most people I've heard say between 24-30ish. Some even say its best to get married when your younger if you want to have kids cause then they will have x or y qualities but I'd still say the best age is whatever God has planned!
 
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sassa

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#36
I totally agree with BLINDSIDE_CHIK it's not about age it's about GOD's time because whatever your age if it isn't GOD plan it will for sure finished by a divorce or you will have to face some bad struggle
 
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colalella2891

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#37
I've been told that you should wait until at least 25 to get married. Apparently we enter a different life stage when we hit that age, and we may not want what we used to want when we were younger. Also, usually people under 25 aren't mature enough to get married yet. By mature of course I mean just not ready.

PS: Not that i'm picking on anybody who's married under 25, i'm not judging.

There's also a statistic, that if the bride/groom is under 25 when he/she marries then the couple is more likely to get a divorce. I saw it on Dr. Drew's show or something...

Waiting until at least 25 is just something i've heard people talk about, and I happen to agree with it. There will of course be people who think differently, and that's fine. :)
 
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Misty77

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Aug 30, 2013
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Matt37777 said:
The bible says "don't get married". Also the saying goes "see each other often, live apart". - Some famous actress. I tend to agree with that to some degree. Love marriages tend to mostly fail. Arranged marriages seem to work out more often. But I think in general unless you're just dying to have kids then marriage is extremely risky. The problem the way I see it is it was once an incredibly good thing. But in modern times the PTB have co-opted it, perverted it and simply turned it into another of there money making schemes'. That's why I don't like the idea, because it's been turned into a g--v trap. no different than college and how's it's become a big scam and other life traps. I'm not saying it all bad. And I'm not saying it shouldn't be tried either. Everyone is different but again I just hate the fact that the g00v has so perverted it that it's no longer worth doing. It's now become another life trap like every other g--v trap, or institution.
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I Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

God doesn't tell us not to get married. The passage from Corinthians as understood in context means that we are to serve God in whatever marital state we are in. Married people can stay married; single people don't have to wait until they are married to serve God (like Hebrew traditions). Paul teaches that there are benefits to singleness and marriage.
 
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danschance

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#39
The best age to get married ---for a man, is after he has started on a career and finds the one woman he can't live without. The one woman God has prepared for him.
 
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letti

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#40
WOW,that poll result surprises me.Divorce is more common in the western world I think.
 
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